Instructional Video12:20
Step Back History

The Christmas Truce: The Day the War Stood Still

12th - Higher Ed
The Christmas Truce was one of the most memorable moments of the First World War. Today, we'll talk about what it was and why it's so damn important to me.
Instructional Video9:05
Science360

Fish-enomics

12th - Higher Ed
In this episode, Jordan and Charlie discuss the economic benefits of regulating mercury pollution. Researchers at MIT were able to translate the estimated health impacts of mercury pollution for US populations into economic benefits.
Instructional Video3:00
Curated Video

Cooking Techniques and History

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Cooking is a word used to describe how we prepare food using heat. Learn about different methods of cooking such roasting, baking, boiling, frying, steaming, smoking, and the chemical reactions involved in the processes. Understand how...
Instructional Video2:42
Curated Video

Afro-Eurasia

K - 8th
This live-action video program is about the word Afro-Eurasia. The program is designed to reinforce and support a student's comprehension and retention of the word Afro-Eurasia through use of video footage, photographs, diagrams and...
Instructional Video0:57
Next Animation Studio

Ancient settlement destroyed by comet, research suggests

12th - Higher Ed
Impact from a comet around 12,800 years ago is believed to have wiped out a human settlement, according to new research published in Scientific Reports. <br/>
Instructional Video7:44
National Parks Service

Yosemite Nature Notes 17: Black Oaks

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Changing appearance throughout the seasons, the black oak is one of the iconic trees of Yosemite Valley, and its acorn is used for food by both animals and people.
Instructional Video12:12
Weird History

The Most Destructive Pandemics In History

12th - Higher Ed
The world is swarming with deadly pandemics, epidemics, diseases, and the history of humanity can certainly attest to this fact. There have been many instances spanning our existence of historic epidemics that threatened humanity.
Instructional Video15:00
Hip Hughes History

The Black Death Explained: Global History Review

6th - 12th
Just how dark were the Dark Ages? How did the Black Plague kill up to 100 million people and change the face of the Earth?
Instructional Video8:18
Oxford Comma

The Dangers of Celebrity Culture: Robinson's "Richard Cory"

9th - 12th
In this video we'll perform a reading, summary, and analysis of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "Richard Cory." Written partly as a response to the Panic of 1893, "Richard Cory" challenges the typical notions of success and happiness.
Instructional Video3:25
Curated OER

Human PreHistory 101 Part 2: Weathering the Storm

6th - 12th
The last ice age occurred around 20,000 years ago. What were the conditions like? How did our ancestors survive them? These questions are briefly explored in a three-minute video clip. See how in a relatively short time, humans spread...
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Human Evolution: Humanity on Earth

9th - 10th
This session travels the earth tracking the evolution of humanity from the age of the dinosaurs through human beings. [12:26]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Time Scale of the Cosmos: Cosmological Time Scale 1

9th - 10th
This video presents different major events in the history of the universe since the Big Bang, in order to put them into the context of time. It tries to demonstrate just how little time has really passed in our recorded human history....
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Measuring Age on Earth: Chronometric Revolution

9th - 10th
Discussion of the relatively recent changes in our ability as a species to shine light on our deep past. [9:53]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Humanity on Earth: Development of Agriculture and Writing

9th - 10th
Looks at the transition of humans from the Paleolithic Age, when humans used stone tools, up to the development of agriculture in the Neolithic Age, which made settlements possible. The next critical development was the advent of...